Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0EU
www.gov.uk/dhsc
Kirrien Wilson
By email to
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
30 August 2024
Dear Kirrien,
Freedom of Information Request Reference FOI-1522711
Thank you for your request dated 6 August to the Department of Health and Social Care
(DHSC), a copy of which can be found in the accompanying annex.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). For
ease, we have broken down your questions as follows:
Information held by DHSC into investigations carried out by the General Medical
Council (GMC) relating to Dr Wahid Asif Shaida and his views.
We are unable to confirm or deny whether DHSC holds the information you have
requested under section 40(5B)(a)(i) of the FOIA.
Section 40(5) of the FOIA provides exemptions from the duty to confirm or deny whether
requested information is held if to do so would disclose personal data. Due to the nature of
the requested information, confirming or denying whether the requested information is
held, and releasing it if it were, would result in information being attributed to an
individual(s), which would contravene one of the data protection principles under Article
5(1)(a) of the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
If investigations have been completed, why Dr Wahid Asif Shaida’s license to
practice medicine has not been suspended.
DHSC does not hold this information.
However, if you have not already done so, you may wish to contact the General Medical
Council (GMC) which may hold information relevant to your request. The GMC can be
contacted at the following link:
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Freedom of Information Team
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Annex
From: Kirrien Wilson <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 12:59 AM
To: FreedomofInformation <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Information relating to investigation into Wahid
Asif SHAIDA
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Dr Wahid Asif SHAIDA (GMC Registration Number: 3350854) is a GP registered with the
General Medical Council and practices as a Family GP in Harrow, West London.
Dr Wahid Asif SHAIDA has made various media appearances making clear his views that
in the eyes as of the British public make him no longer fit and proper to practice medicine
in the UK, Including;
- Campaigning on the Streets of London for Jihad.
-Being the Leader of a Proscribed Terrorist Organization in the UK -Having extreme views
on the rights of the LGBTQ community.
-Referring to the events in Israel on the 7th October 2023 as a punch in the face.
-Denying the 7th October 2023 terrorist attacks never actually happened.
-Calling for Sharia Law to be implemented in the UK.
-And many other things.
I am requesting any information held into investigations relating to the above GP and his
view that the GMC have carried out and if the investigations have been completed, why his
license to practice medicine hasn't been suspended since the investigation as he is still
showing on the GMC GP register as active.
Yours faithfully,
Kirrien Wilson
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